Public reading
4 ha · -8.500, 115.243 · Indonesia
Undecided ground. Decide with it.
26th percentile for like land · Frontier tier · 51 conservation priority
8 of 8 sources answered · higher is better on every pillar; pressure reads calm
The reading in full
This 4-hectare parcel near Sayan, Ubud District, Gianyar is workable land whose plan must come before the capital. It scores 53 out of 100 on the Dear Wise Earth Land Score.
The risks that most shape a decision here: The terrain is steep, which constrains construction and raises erosion risk. Steep slopes increase building and road costs, limit machinery access, and make the land more prone to erosion and landslides. This area is highly exposed to projected climate change by 2050. Large shifts in temperature and rainfall can change what the land can support, so any plan should be built around the projected conditions, not current ones.
Where the upside lies: Most of the parcel reads as tree cover. Tree cover can carry real conservation and carbon value, but satellite land-cover cannot tell natural forest from a monoculture plantation (oil palm, rubber, teak). Confirm which it is before assuming biodiversity or carbon value. A watercourse runs through the parcel. On-site water supports irrigation, livestock, and habitat and can lower water-supply costs — though it may carry buffer or setback rules worth checking.
The wider readings: Rainfall is high and supports rain-fed use. There is enough water for most crops and forestry with little or no irrigation; dry-season storage still helps. Rainfall has also been rising, which can bring more intense wet seasons; plan drainage accordingly. Little wildlife has been formally recorded here. A low record count usually reflects limited survey effort rather than low biodiversity, so a ground survey is needed before drawing conclusions. Soil organic carbon is moderate. The soil is workable but will benefit from cover cropping and organic inputs to build fertility before intensive use. Road and town access are close. Good access lowers development and logistics costs but can raise encroachment pressure and land prices.
What the land is telling us: The change record here is thin — the canopy history did not fully resolve — so the trajectory is honestly unknown. The standing signals look sound, but calling the land stable would be an assertion, not a reading; treat its direction as a first field question. Of the land's core processes, the water cycle reads as adequate to abundant, so the question is less supply than how well the land captures and holds what falls and community dynamics are barely recorded here — an absence of data, not necessarily of life. What orbit cannot see is what happens below the surface — soil biology, structure, and the carbon held in the ground — so treat those as the first things to confirm underfoot. Taken together, this is workable land whose plan must come before the capital. Its clearest strength to build from is that most of the parcel reads as tree cover.
The ground and its cover
The verdict, the five pillar readings, how much of the land was read, and the headline figures.
The verdict
Sayan, Ubud District, Gianyar
26th percentile for like land · Frontier tier · 51 conservation priority
Five readings
Weakest: Climate
All five read on one axis: higher is better. Pressure scores calm, so a high number means little human pressure on this land.
Standing
all readings worldwide · against 100 readings
Coverage
8 of 8 layers answered
Every pillar read from live data.
Where the capital goes
Frontierhospitality fit 64
Best-fit model
Watershed protection
Fit from published rules over the indicators.
The land in numbers
Headline figures. The Why tab carries each reading in full, with its source and its date. “Not read” means the source had nothing for this parcel: a gap is named, never filled with a guess.
How this land works
About 2,369 mm of rain falls here in a year. 92% of the parcel is under tree cover, and the ground is steep (15.3° on average), so every bare patch sheds water and soil fast. 112 mapped watercourses cross the land (Tukad Bengbeng, Ayung River). A road runs against the boundary, and the nearest settlement is 1.5 km away, which is the pressure the edge lives with. By 2050 the models expect +0.9 °C and +76% rain, so every flow above runs a little differently than it does today.
Holding — rainfall up 16% over twenty years.
To help: keep the canopy whole; the loop is running the right way on its own.
The score is the footnote. What matters is the pattern above it: what arrives, what the ground does with it, what leaves, and which way that is moving.
This place
4 hectares at Sayan of gentle land around 219 m. The ground reads 92% under canopy, 8% built. Water shapes it — 2,369 mm of rain a year, 112 traced watercourses. The nearest settlement is Sayan, 1.49 km away.
Hold the water tower for everyone downstream. Steep (15.3°), wet (2,369 mm/yr), and river-laced, this parcel's highest value is the water and soil it keeps in place for everyone downstream.
This is an outsider's reading, assembled from instruments and public records. It is where understanding begins, not where it ends — the land, its neighbours, and the people who know it hold the rest.
Nominatim reverse geocode
Terrarium elevation tiles
Archive 2004–2024 + MPI-ESM1-2-XR to 2050
SoilGrids v2.0 (SOC, pH, sand, clay; 0–30 cm)
WorldCover 2021 v200
Overpass (waterways, highways, places, protected areas)
Occurrence records (count + top species)
Global Surface Water v1.4 — occurrence & seasonality
Every number above is public, open data — named, dated, and licensed. What TERRA does not publish is the lens: the weights, curves, and verdict thresholds that turn these layers into a Land Score. That judgment is calibrated from land walked on the ground, and it stays proprietary.
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